Three Records Broken by a Leyland Thomas Car: 120 Miles an Hour London, Oct, 7.
Three motor speed records were broken on. the Brooklands racing' track to-day by Mr. Parry Thomas on a Leyland Thomas car. He lower. ed the 500 miles record of 4 hours, 82 minutes, 42 seconds by 5 seconds, his speed on one lap of 2 miles being 120 miles per hour. He also heat, the world's record for 3 hours' continuous driving, during which his speed averaged 111.28 miles an hour. The third record to be broken that for 600 kilometres, over which he attained an average. speed of 110,04 miles an hour.
Mr. Thomas failed by a narrow] margin to break the records for the 1,000 Kilometres and for the 6 hours' driving, but his times for these tests were the best ever attained on a car of less than 8 litres capacity. '—British Wireless through Reuter.
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